In June of 2007, 7 friends left the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia on a trip to Nepal. Our mission was to deliver a painting of an amazing man in a remote village which sits at 12,000 feet in the Himalayas. The film that documents this cultural exchange is now finished, and in the summer of 2010, it was carried back to Nepal and shown there. The film premiered in the US on September 16 at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke before beginning a new journey around the country.

Upcoming Shows

We've been named as a official selection in the Southern Circuit of Filmmakers Tour, March 17-24.Shows are in Hapeville, GA 3/17, Madison, GA 3/20, Orangeburg, SC 3/22, Gainsville, GA 3/23, and Manteo, NC 3/24.Learn more by going to the SouthArts blog.

View the theatrical trailer for A Gift for the Village

Friday, October 19, 2007

Mark your calendars for November 14

Hello from the long-lost trekkers. It has been pretty crazy in all of our worlds since the last of our crew returned in August. Jenna had to start planning for a new year of teaching 5th graders and an especially challenging student, who she is of course dedicating every moment to helping in the classroom, as well as working weekends at North American River Runners. Jane came home to a houseful of expectant cats and immediately had to face the prospect of teaching 2 courses this semester at Virginia Tech, along with her day job working at the middle school. I began a new job teaching online, and the learning curve has been steep. Jason has been up in West Virginia guiding trips (the season ends this weekend, I believe). Reba is full-tilt into teaching her class, and we are all missing our friends back in Nepal as they wait expectantly for the political situation to stabilize.

All of this does NOT mean that we've stopped forward progress on our project, but it has been laying fallow and we're just beginning to poke it with a stick and wake it up for a fall and winter season of making progress. Jenna and Jane are making plans for a program to take place at Virginia Tech on November 14 - the event that we had to cancel after the tragic campus shootings last April. As soon as we have a web link for the presentation, I'll post it here.T.

14 comments:

Tom, thanks for this notice, and a new post. I may not be able to be there physically, but you all have my support for this project and the work you have ahead of you to process your video and photos to complete the record of this Gift for the Village.

For those who may be wondering, Sherrie returned to her home on Maui, HI, and her busy schedule of videographer and still photographer appointments and related duties, photo lab and toe ring kiosks management, her busy athletic and social life, now bathed in an ocean of splendid photos from this expedition to process.

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